Question

Which statement from “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” best explains why the elves and fairies of King Arthur’s time no longer exist? (1 point)
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“Faint was the soul within his sorrowful breast, as home he went, he dared no longer stay
• “Now peradventure some may well suspect a lack of care in me since I neglect . . .”
• “The Elf-Queen and her courtiers joined and broke/Their elfin dance on many a green mead…”
• “[T]he saintly charity and prayer/Of holy friars seem to have purged the air…”

Answer 1

After reading all the options from the scale represented above, I've recognized the correct answer which is being revealed by the third line: “The Elf-Queen and her courtiers joined and broke/Their elfin dance on many a green mead…”  In  the very first stanzas of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”  the reader is being told about how elves and fairies of King Arthur’s have dissapeared and this line coincides with the sense the best including the Queen as it was in the beginning of the story.

Answer 2

The correct answer is:

"[T]he saintly charity and prayer/Of holy friars seem to have purged the air…"